The identity of distinct attributes generates a formal contradiction that cannot be dissolved by appeal to ineffability or analogical predication without abandoning cognitive meaningfulness of theological language.
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Words and statements used to talk about God and religion, and the question of whether we can ever truly describe God accurately.
analogical predication(Aquinas's theory for how positive terms like 'good' can be truly applied to God despite divine transcendence.)
A mode of predication in which a term applied to God has a sense that is neither univocal with nor purely equivocal to its creaturely use; instead, the creaturely property preexists in God in a higher mode.